Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
けん
Grade: S

Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
嫌惡 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(けん)() (ken'oけんを (ken'wo)?

  1. hatred, dislike, aversion
    ()()(けん)()
    jiko ken'o
    self-hatred
    (けん)()(ねん)(おさ)えることができなかった。
    Ken'o no nen o osaeru koto ga dekinakatta.
    I couldn't suppress my hatred.
  2. -phobia
    (どう)(せい)(あい)(けん)()
    dōseiaiken'o
    homophobia

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Verb edit

(けん)()する (ken'o surusuru (stem (けん)() (ken'o shi), past (けん)()した (ken'o shita))

  1. to hate; to dislike; to despise; to detest

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.